netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3 net-next] net_device: Add minimal padding to allow for net

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Date:	Fri, 10 Apr 2015 02:03:06 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 net-next] net_device: Add minimal padding to allow
 for net_device pointer alignment

On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 09:48 +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:

> 
> I assumed kmalloc would guarantee alignment of the return pointer as
> indicated by __alignof__ but I now realize that this can't possibly be the
> case. kmalloc only knows about the size. We'll have to drop patch 3.
> Fortunately it's still below 2K.


If you really care for this, take a look at qdisc_alloc()
and commit d276055c4e90a7278cd5167ba9755c9b214bcff7
("net_sched: reduce fifo qdisc size")

(Note that some setups require ~3 network devices but 3000+ qdisc)

I guess it might be nice to define a common helper and reuse it.



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